This work is an attempt to document Ruben Borer’s journey to answer a question that emerged through these studies: Is there a sustainable way to do product design? It strongly follows the argument of degrowth, where sufficiency is believed to be the only sustainable way to reinstitute an equilibrium with the one ecosphere that provides for us – our planet. Ruben found that sustainable design starts with the understanding of how to live more sufficiently oneself – lead by his own personal example.
This work doesn’t follow the SDGs in the sense that they remain growth-orientated and fail to mirror my current understanding of sustainability.
